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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
Postgres 18 introduces Asynchronous I/O (AIO) that can dramatically improve read performance, especially in the cloud. Learn how these changes and the new io_method setting work and see why our benchmark results show that io_uring is the recommended setting for maximizing I/O performance in Postgres 18 over the…
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Databases & DataSoftware Engineering2025
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2025 | Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O by lfittl | 572 | 154 |
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Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from May 2025 to Sep 2025.
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- n_u · Sep 22, 2025
- bddicken · Aug 11, 2025
- kiwicopple · May 8, 2025
